Tsuwano Domain

The Tsuwano Domain was a feudal domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate. They were ruled by the Kamei family and were based in Iwami Province in Chugoku, near the lands of the Choshu Domain. They were vassals of the Tokugawa and the shoguns.

History
The Sakazaki clan were the original ruling family of the domain, ruling from 1601 to 1617, when they were replaced by the Kamei family. In the han system, Tsuwano was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.

In the 1800s the Tsuwano backed the Tokugawa Shogunate against the Emperor and their clans, who included the Choshu Domain, their western neighbors. Daimyo Kamei Korekata fought against the Choshu to the west but was deposed due to his loyalties.